Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings / 2003
Tornado Warnings in Georgia, May 2003
36 tornado warnings in May 2003. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.
Tornado Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 36
- Busiest day
- May 6, 200320 tornado warnings
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 7:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson | 29 min |
| May 2, 11:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Coffee | 35 min |
| May 6, 11:47 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow | 28 min |
| May 6, 12:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 25 min |
| May 6, 12:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Pickens | 24 min |
| May 6, 12:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 24 min |
| May 6, 1:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Hall | 29 min |
| May 6, 1:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dawson, Forsyth | 35 min |
| May 6, 1:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Banks, Hall, Jackson | 29 min |
| May 6, 1:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Franklin | 33 min |
| May 6, 1:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Barrow, Jackson | 25 min |
| May 6, 1:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Madison | 36 min |
| May 6, 2:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Elbert, Hart | 56 min |
| May 6, 2:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton | 36 min |
| May 6, 2:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jackson | 17 min |
| May 6, 2:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Madison | 37 min |
| May 6, 2:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 35 min |
| May 6, 2:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clarke, Oglethorpe | 32 min |
| May 6, 3:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 30 min |
| May 6, 3:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 30 min |
| May 6, 3:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Lincoln | 25 min |
| May 6, 4:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 42 min |
| May 7, 4:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Heard | 38 min |
| May 7, 4:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Heard | 33 min |
| May 7, 5:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Heard | 54 min |
| May 7, 6:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Fulton | 51 min |
| May 7, 6:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta | 59 min |
| May 7, 6:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Fulton | 40 min |
| May 7, 6:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Heard | 37 min |
| May 7, 7:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta | 31 min |
| May 7, 7:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Fayette | 41 min |
| May 7, 7:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 49 min |
| May 7, 7:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Troup | 46 min |
| May 7, 10:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris | 49 min |
| May 7, 11:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris | 25 min |
| May 8, 3:28 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris, Talbot | 47 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Carroll County6
- Heard County4
- Jackson County3
- Fulton County3
- Harris County3
- Cherokee County2
- Hall County2
- Madison County2
- Oglethorpe County2
- Wilkes County2
- Douglas County2
- Coweta County2
- Haralson County1
- Coffee County1
- Bartow County1
- Pickens County1
- Dawson County1
- Forsyth County1
- Banks County1
- Franklin County1
- Barrow County1
- Elbert County1
- Hart County1
- Cobb County1
- DeKalb County1
- Gwinnett County1
- Clarke County1
- Lincoln County1
- Fayette County1
- Clayton County1
- Henry County1
- Troup County1
- Talbot County1
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.